Genetics Living Things Science

• Beyond Discovery, Designer Seeds - Explains how and why scientists create genetically engineered plants, particularly those resistant to herbicides, pests, and diseases. Note: one of the sponsors of this site is a chemical company.
  
• What Can Our Chromosomes Tell Us? - Interactive karyotyping activity, in which you can determine if different individuals have specific genetic diseases or not.
  
• Right Handed DNA Hall of Fame - Artistic pictures of right-handed DNA. Includes a left-handed hall of fame and other genetics links.
  
• Tech Topics: Genetics - Features explanations and activities on DNA, forensic science and cloning.
  
• Whose Genes? - Guide to genetic engineering. What is it? Should you be worried? Is it okay? Is it for need or for greed?
  
• Human's Playground: Genetic Engineering - Explains the history, basic biology, and the controversy surrounding genetic engineering.
  
• OLogy: The Gene Scene - Defines genetics, explains DNA, discusses cloning, and looks at genetic engineering. Includes activities.
  
• DNA from the Beginning - Information and pictures about classical genetics, molecules of genetics, and genetic organization and control.
  
• Genetically Modified Crops - What kids say about genetic engineering and modification of food. Includes a quiz, pro and con links, and a forum. By Ogilvie High School, Tasmania, Australia.
  
• Fugue No. 9: E Major - Interactive Director movie comparing a fugue by Johann Sebastian Bach to the structure of DNA.
  
• A Hypermedia Glossary of Genetic Terms - A fairly bare-bones web site that features readable definitions to the technical language of genetics.
  
• Your Genes Your Choices - Describes basic genetics as well as the legal, social, and ethical implications of increasing genetic knowledge.
  
• DNA: The Instruction Manual for All Life - An online exhibit from the Tech Museum of Innovation that explains how DNA works and what its job is
  
• Snapshots of Science and Medicine - Reseach in the news, researcher profiles, and societal impacts.
  
• The Human Genome Project: Exploring Our Molecular Selves - Looks at the history of genes, and how they can help medicine in the future.
  
• Kids Genetics - GlaxoSmithKline explains how researchers are working to understand the genetic base of common diseases in order to discover and develop new medicines.
  
• A Question of Genes: Inherited Risk - Explores the social, ethical and emotional consequences of genetic cloning. Includes a teacher's guide. From PBS.
  
• Discovering Genetics - Includes animated clips, lessons and quizzes about genetics and heredity.
  
• Genetic Science Learning Center - How does genetics affect our lives? Online activities, labs, experiments, and workshops for students, teens, and all others curious about genetics.
  
• Cat Fanciers: Color Genetics - Explains the genes behind cat coat colors including: whites, Siamese and Burmese, Abbyssinian, bicolors, and tricolors.
  
• DNA Interactive - An interactive project to explore DNA. Has historic timeline, talks about how DNA science may be applied to healthcare, and delve into the mysteries of our species' past, shows its code and possible manipulations, dicoveres the genome.
  
  

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